Chapter 217: A Foul
“Xu Liunian…” Qi Xia said with a frown. “Are you the type who won’t shed tears until you see the coffin? Right now, the one with their throat crushed is you.”
“It… it doesn’t matter…” Xu Liunian smiled painfully. “In this ‘Land of Endings,’ no matter who it is, as long as you’re on guard, the success rate of killing you is very low… But I want to prove that I can do it.”
Qi Xia frowned. “I don’t care what you’re thinking. I just want to ask you: what did you do to Qiao Jiajin?”
“It doesn’t matter what happened to him…” Xu Liunian slowly revealed a manic expression. “Chu Tianqiu is even crazier than I imagined… haha… tonight he’s going to make everyone here die…”
“Aren’t you just as crazy?”
Qi Xia paused, but eventually released his hand that was choking Xu Liunian.
“Don’t struggle in vain,” Qi Xia said. “If you join us now, we still have a chance to escape.”
“No…” Xu Liunian lay on the ground, slowly pulling a small knife from her pocket. “My mind is made up… Only by killing you here can I make you understand my capabilities.”
“Brother Qi, be careful!” Li Xiangling saw the opponent pull out a weapon and wanted to rush up to help, but forgot that her ankle was sprained. She fell to the ground after only three steps.
But Qi Xia reacted quickly. Seeing this, he immediately reached out and grabbed Xu Liunian’s wrist. “Hey! I said enough! Don’t you understand?”
“I don’t want to pretend anymore,” Xu Liunian said with a smile. “I don’t want to be anyone’s pawn… I just want to be myself.”
She slowly aimed the small knife in her hand at Qi Xia, but Qi Xia held her wrist firmly, preventing her from advancing even a little.
“Stop struggling,” Qi Xia said. “You said it yourself: when I’m on guard, it’s impossible for an ordinary person to kill me.”
“So you think this is all I’ve got?”
Xu Liunian smiled and flipped the dagger in her hand, now aiming it at her own chest.
Qi Xia frowned slightly, not understanding her intention.
The next second, Xu Liunian, holding Qi Xia’s hand, thrust the blade into her own heart.
“Cough…” She coughed loudly and spat out a mouthful of blood.
It seemed the blade had gone straight into her lung.
“You…” Qi Xia’s eyes slowly widened. “Are you crazy?!”
“Qi Xia…” Xu Liunian revealed her bloodstained teeth. “Do you think this trick is clever?”
Qi Xia felt her other hand touch his pants pocket, and then she went still.
“What…?” Watching Xu Liunian lose her life, Qi Xia was bewildered.
She kept saying she wanted to kill him, but instead she committed suicide.
Li Xiangling also got up from the ground, looking at this scene in confusion.
She too had clearly seen the woman reverse the blade and plunge it into her own heart.
“Brother Qi… are you okay…?” Li Xiangling asked.
Qi Xia stood up in a daze. This was the first time he had experienced the feeling of personally killing someone, so his mind was inevitably shaken.
“I… I’m fine…”
As soon as the words left Qi Xia’s mouth, the entire room suddenly shook.
The next second, a human-like figure suddenly appeared in midair, startling the two people in the room.
“Bold…” the figure said in a low voice.
Qi Xia and Li Xiangling both looked up and saw a woman floating above the room. Her hair was unimaginably long, draped over her body like clothing. At this moment, neither her skin nor her face could be seen.
“Divine Beast…?” Qi Xia was stunned.
The woman in midair stretched out a hand and slowly parted the hair in front of her, revealing a pale, stern face. She looked at Qi Xia and repeated, “Bold…”
Qi Xia felt a chill run down his spine. Just being stared at by this woman made him break out in a cold sweat.
“Are you talking about me…?” Qi Xia asked, mustering his courage. “What have I done that’s bold?”
“Killing to take the ‘Dao’—a foul,” the woman said coldly.
“Take…” Qi Xia was startled and suddenly thought of something.
He quickly reached into his pocket and found that a small orb had indeed appeared there.
This must have been the “Dao” that Xu Liunian had slipped into his pocket as she died.
“W-wait a minute…” Qi Xia was rarely flustered. “She committed suicide. And the ‘Dao’ was also stuffed into my pocket by her. How can that be considered my foul?”
“Bold,” the woman snapped again. “The person died beneath you. The ‘Dao’ is in your pocket. Foul.”
“Damn it, this is completely unreasonable…” Qi Xia gritted his teeth. “Do you only look at the surface? If this counts as my foul, then this method could kill anyone in the ‘Land of Endings.’”
The woman in the sky paused, as if trying to understand what Qi Xia had said. After a moment, she uttered two words again: “Foul…”
Qi Xia showed a resentful expression, pointing at the door beside him. “Just outside this door, two teams are fighting, with countless casualties… and you only care about whether I’ve fouled or not?”
“Qi Xia. Die.”
Seeing that she was impervious to reason, Qi Xia’s heart sank halfway.
He had already met three “Divine Beasts.”
Although White Tiger and Vermilion Bird were wildly insane, they could barely communicate.
But the woman in front of him seemed to have lost all normal ability to think.
What to do now?
A ridiculous thought appeared in Qi Xia’s mind.
Run away?
As a normal person, to run away in front of a god-like madman?
What were the chances of survival now?
“Scammer!”
A reckless voice sounded from outside the door. The person pushed the door, but found it locked from the inside.
“Ay diu, scammer, kung fu girl, are you still in there?” the voice asked from outside.
Qi Xia looked seriously at the door, then turned back to Li Xiangling and said, “Tell that idiot that we can’t win this one—he has to run.”
“Br-Brother Qi… what the hell is this…”
Qi Xia bent down and pulled the dagger out of Xu Liunian’s body.
He knew he was doomed.
Since he was going to die anyway… could he possibly fight this woman?
“Hey, which ‘Divine Beast’ are you?” Qi Xia asked.
“I am ‘Black Tortoise,’” the woman said as she slowly descended to the ground, her hair spreading across the floor. “Drop your weapon and enjoy the slaughter.”
“Ha…” Qi Xia gave a cold laugh. “I’ve already fallen to this godforsaken place… and you think I’ll obey you?”
Qi Xia stepped forward fearlessly, anger gradually rising in his eyes.
“You scum… give Yu Nian’an back to me…”
Black Tortoise slowly raised her eyes: “Bold.”